One of the most inspiring things about space is the eternal dance of celestial bodies around each other (yeah sometimes they crash on one another but you get the idea). …

Procedural generation is a fun way to generate infinite combinations of just about everything you can think of. It works by generating random numbers in a predictable way and then associating those numbers with a set of rules you define. Here I will go through how I generated gas giants…

This article is part of the rigidbody physics engine guide: Rigidbody physics: beginner’s guide So you want to create a physics engine? You have come to the right place, in these articles I will go through how I…medium.com Alright, with the broad phase being done, we can tackle the most difficult part of this tutorial. This was the hardest because there is not a lot of information about it on the research paper. …

This article is part of the rigidbody physics engine guide: Rigidbody physics: beginner’s guide So you want to create a physics engine? You have come to the right place, in these articles I will go through how I…medium.com Precise collision detection is expensive to compute because it depends on the complexity of the objects in the scene. Even for simple meshes such as spheres, there is already a high number of triangles and vertices to take into account…

This article is part of the rigidbody physics engine guide: Rigidbody physics: beginner’s guide So you want to create a physics engine? You have come to the right place, in these articles I will go through how I…medium.com To make the developpement easier (and not miss my teacher’s deadline), I built Avalanche using WebGL to avoid the headaches that C++ gives to everyone from time to time. Nonetheless, my code is object oriented and thus porting it to…

This article is part of the rigidbody physics engine guide: Rigidbody physics: beginner’s guide So you want to create a physics engine? You have come to the right place, in these articles I will go through how I…medium.com A good place to start when making a physics engine is to understand what are rigidbodies and why we use them for physics simulations. The world of softbodies In reality, every objects experiences deformation while in contact with other objects. It may obvious in…

So you want to create a physics engine? You have come to the right place, in these articles I will go through how I created the Avalanche physics engine for a school project. While making my own research, I found that there was not a lot of beginner friendly resources…